Penalties for not buying your mandated insurance...

[Demo_Chris]

45. There is no point going around on this...

The REALITY is that there will be millions of people who do not qualify for medicaid or an emergency exemption, and yet find paying for Obamacare a significant burden. Tap dancing around that self-evident fact does not change it. For example:

That family of four (two adults, two kids) earning 35K a year might damn well find shelling out an extra hundred and ten a month to be a massive hardship. Or take a family of three, two working adults, one "adult" child living at home because he cannot find a job, might just as easily find paying an extra hundred and fifty a month to be crippling. But hey, who needs heat anyway -- the insurance companies need their cash.

Let's talk about Nancy. She's single, working, and earning 22K a year. Well done Nancy! But as good as that pay might be -- and in today's America that's pretty decent money -- it's hard for her to pay her rent and all that on only 22K a year. And now, thanks to Obamacare, she has just been hammered with yet another bill. This time for an extra hundred a month that she damn well better come up with or she'll face a serious fine.

These people are not unusual. They exist in the millions. In fact, they just happen to earn what America's largest employers pay -- and maybe even a little more. They matter too. And if they somehow do manage to scrape together the extra cash in order to avoid their poverty fines, you know what they get?

Not a damn thing. They still cannot afford health CARE because they cannot afford the copays and deductibles. And their ability to save that money (like they had any extra to save before this) was just eroded further by this law. Their extra cash is now going to offset the rising healthcare costs of the affluent and padding the insurance companies bottom lines.

Now I suspect that you are not going to actually stop with the celebration long enough to actually think about anything I just wrote. But know this: This crap is going to come back and hammer us down the road. Once these people realize that they are getting screwed, when they have to choose between heating their homes or feeding their kids and buying insurance they cannot afford to use, they are going to blame us.

All numbers from:

http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/